NetBSD Problem Report #55

From gnats  Thu Dec 30 07:46:06 1993
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 10:38:20 -0500
From: mckim@lerc.nasa.gov
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To: gnats-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: bootblocks 'make install' should create the target directory
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>Number:         55
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bootblocks 'make install' should create the target directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    jtc
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 30 07:50:05 +0000 1993
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jan 27 18:57:32 +0000 1994
>Last-Modified:  
>Originator:     Jim McKim
>Release:        current
>Organization:
NASA Lewis Research Center
>Environment:

System: NetBSD mildred 0.9 MILDRED#4 i386

Machine: i386

>Description:

The 'make install' step copies the boot block images to the target
directory /usr/mdec. If the directory does not exist, the operation
fails.

>How-To-Repeat:

I am building a version of NetBSD-current in an empty chrooted directory.
This directory, which is normally created by the system
installation disks, was not present (of course).

The sequence of activities I followed went like this:
Make an empty directory.
Copy/move the /usr/src branch into it.
Chroot into it.
From another session, copy enough essential executables to allow
compilation and installation of the sources.
At /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/boot, 'make install' fails.

This problem can also occur if $DESTDIR is set.

>Fix:

*** sys/arch/i386/boot/Makefile.orig	Thu Dec 30 12:53:14 1993
--- sys/arch/i386/boot/Makefile	Thu Dec 30 13:50:35 1993
***************
*** 63,72 ****
  bootbios:	boot
  	dd if=boot of=bootbios skip=1

! ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd:	bootbios
  	cp bootbios ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd

! ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/sdboot:	biosboot
  	cp biosboot ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/sdboot

  ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootwd:	${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd
--- 63,75 ----
  bootbios:	boot
  	dd if=boot of=bootbios skip=1

! ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec:
! 	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec
! 
! ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd:	${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec bootbios
  	cp bootbios ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd

! ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/sdboot:	${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec biosboot
  	cp biosboot ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/sdboot

  ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootwd:	${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/bootsd

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->jtc
Responsible-Changed-By: jtc
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 14 14:49:09 1994
Responsible-Changed-Why:

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: jtc
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 14 14:49:04 1994
State-Changed-Why:
This is really a problem with the proper directory heirarchy for a 
distribution not being set up.  Some work has been done with mtree
and the Makefile in src/Makefile, that should make it unecessary
for any Makefile to make it's target directory.

State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed
State-Changed-By: jtc
State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 27 18:57:32 1994
State-Changed-Why:
Mtree is now used to create distribute directory hierarchy and
BSD.usr.dist contains an entry for /usr/mdec.


>Unformatted:

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